ANGLETON — Longtime Brazoria County Court at Law Judge James A. Blackstock is accused of sending lewd photos and inappropriately touching three female employees of the county's juvenile probation department, officials said Wednesday.

As a result, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct on Wednesday suspended Blackstock with pay and he will not be able to hear cases, said state District Judge Ed Denman, who serves as the administrative judge in Brazoria County.

In documents filed by Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne, Blackstock is charged with 14 counts of official oppression. The sexual harassment acts for which he is accused span from July 2007 to June of this year.

Blackstock, 61, who was first elected in 1988 when the County Court at Law No. 3 judgeship was created, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. His office offered a "no comment" when contacted by the Houston Chronicle.

A message left at Blackstock's Angleton home was not returned.

Yenne also would not comment on the charges filed Tuesday.

On Monday, Blackstock resigned his position as chair of the county's juvenile probation board, Denman said.

Under state law, official oppression occurs when a public servant abuses his position to mistreat another person.

The misdemeanor charges against Blackstock carry a maximum possible punishment of a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

According to court documents, Blackstock is accused of touching the breast of a juvenile probation department employee while in his office at the Brazoria County courthouse. He also is accused of kissing her, placing his hand under her shirt, sending her lewd pictures on the county's e-mail system as well as to her cell phone.

Blackstock also is accused of touching another juvenile probation department employee on the breast while in his office and while the employee was driving in Angleton. He also is accused of sending lewd images to her cell phone.

In addition, the judge is accused of touching the breasts and buttocks of a third employee of the juvenile probation office. He is accused of asking her to expose her breasts to him while the two were in his office and to exhibiting lewd photos on a computer screen in his office.

The three women listed in the court document declined to comment to the Chronicle.

Blackstock has been in trouble before with the Commission on Judicial Conduct.

In 1997, the commission issued a "public warning" after he sued someone while he also was the presiding judge in a criminal case in which that person was the defendant.

The same year he was cited for telephoning an appeals court justice who was considering a child-custody case in which Blackstock was involved.